Domain Name, Hosting & Other Info

Building a website has three basic components you need to be aware of:

• Website
• Domain Name
• Hosting

To understand how these components work think of a house or office building.

The WEBSITE
Is the actual building, the individual pages that display your information. Anchor Web Design will design and build your "house".

The DOMAIN NAME (website address)
Is the like the street address of the building. A Domain Name is the address that will be entered when someone wishes to visit your website. Commonly, a Domain Name will be in the form of www.something.com the "something" being your business name or title. Websites located in Australia usually have a Domain Name with an additional "au" at the end like www.something.com.au. Domain Names can also have .net or .org in place of the .com. In Australia, Domain Names are registered for a period of two years after which time they must be renewed.

The HOSTING
Is the land that your "house" is built on. Website Hosting is like a lease on the land your "house" is built on. So that people can access the pages on your website 24 hours a day, they must be stored on a computer that is set up accordingly and permanently connected to the internet. While most Internet Service Providers (ISP) will offer some form of this service there are webhosting companies solely dedicated to this task.

Some things to consider:

• In Australia, you must have a registered business to be able to apply for a .com.au domain name.
• Only .com.au names can be listed in Australian search engines.
• Anyone can register a .com name.
• .name, .biz and .info domain names are now also available
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Last Updated: 23 March 2007      Copyright © Anchor Web Design 2001-2007       ABN # 42 569 037 704